There is life that we do not know of…

(Meister Eckhart)

Found this poem in the book by Daniel Ladinsky, “Love poems from God”, twelve sacred voices from the East and West. And it reminded me of how Abhinavagupta, in his Tantraloka, takes us on a journey around the hundred and eighteen worlds and back, only to tell us in the end that this is only what he has seen, and there are infinite more worlds, and that he is sharing it with us only to make us aware of how insignificant small we are in this amazing, vast world of God.

After finishing our annual retreat, following the Birthday of our spiritual teacher, I am still in amazement and full of gratitude for this treasure of wisdom of an oral tradition and Swamiji’s foresight to preserve it in audio and video for us to listen and watch over and over until we understand and are able to digest it one day, hopefully! Every time I listen to his words it seems totally new, like I have never heard it before. Yet every time I hear it, meditate on it, tiny bits of this vast world of God comes into view, gets illuminated, gets clearer, disappear again. How can we every understand it all?